Marshall McLuhan

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Herbert Marshall McLuhan (21 July 1911 – 31 December 1980) was a Canadian professor of English, philosopher of communication theory and a public intellectual. His work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries.

Works

Theses

  • George Meredith as a Poet and Dramatic Parodist, University of Manitoba, [1934]. M.A. thesis. Unpublished.
  • The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of his Time, Cambridge, [1943]; ed. W. Terrence Gordon, Gingko Press, 2009, 292 pp. Ph.D. Dissertation. [1]. Review: Rose (CJC). (English)

Books

  • The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, New York: Vanguard Press, 1951; Gingko Press, 2002, 160 pp; London: Duckworth Overlook, 2011. [2] (English)
    • La sposa meccanica: il folclore dell'uomo industriale, trans. Francesca Gorjup Valente and Carla Plevano Pezzini, Milan: SugarCo, 1984, 303 pp. (Italian)
    • Kikai no hanayome: sangyō shakai no fōkuroa [機械の花嫁: 産業社会のフォークロア], trans. Manabu Isaka, Tokyo: Takeuchi Shoten, 1991, 369 pp. (Japanese)
    • Die mechanische Braut: Volkskultur des industriellen Menschen, trans. Rainer Höltschl, Amsterdam: Verlag der Kunst, 1996, 254 pp. (German)
    • La mariée mécanique: folklore de l'homme industriel, trans. Émilie Notéris, Alfortville: Ère, 2012, 172 pp. (French)
  • Counterblast, [Toronto], 1954, [17] pp; Gingko Press, 2011. Distributed in 1954 as a hand-made 'zine'. [3] (English)
    • Counterblast, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969, 141 pp; London: Rapp + Whiting, 1969, 141 pp; Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969; Gingko Press, 2010. (English)
    • Contraexplosión, trans. Isidoro Gelstein, Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1971, 147 pp. (Spanish)
    • Counter tsald, trans. Jean Paré, Montréal: Hurtubise/HMH, 1972, 141 pp; Paris: Mame, 1972. (French)
  • The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, University of Toronto Press, 1962, 300 pp; 2011, 336 pp. (English)
    • La galaxie Gutenberg: la génèse de l'homme typographique, Montréal: HMH, 1967, 432 pp; Paris: Mame, 1967; new ed., 2 vols., trans. Paris: Gallimard, 1977, 519 pp. (French)
    • La galaxia Gutemberg: génesis del "homo typographicus", trans. Juan Novella, Madrid: Aguilar, 1969, 410 pp. (Spanish)
    • Gutenberg-galaxen: den typografiska människans uppkomst, trans. Richard Matz, Stockholm: PAN/Norstedt, 1969, 373 pp. (Swedish)
    • A galáxia de Gutenberg: a formação do homem tipográfico, trans. Leônidas Gontigo de Carvalho and Anísio Teixeira, São Paulo: Ed. da Universidade de São Paulo, 1972, 390 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Gutenbergova galaksija: nastajanje tipografskog čoveka, trans. Branko Vučićević, Belgrade: Nolit, 1973, 346 pp. (Serbo-Croatian)
    • La galàxia Gutenberg: la formació de l'home tipogràfic, trans. Francesc Parcerisas, Barcelona: Ediciones 62, 1973, 323 pp. (Catalan)
    • Galaxia Gutenberg: omul şi era tiparului, intro. Victor Ernest Maşek, trans. Luiza Năvodaru and Petre Năvodaru, Bucharest: Politică, 1975, 453 pp. (Romanian)
    • La galassia Gutenberg: nascita dell'uomo tipografico, trans. Stefano Rizzo, Rome: Armando, 1976, 383 pp. (Italian)
    • Gutenberuku no gingakei: Katsuji ningen no keisei [グーテンベルクの銀河系: 活字人間の形成], Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 1986, vii+486+xxiv pp. (Japanese)
    • Gutenberg galaxia: "Homo typographicus" delakoaren genesia, trans. Edorta Agirre, Donostia: Gaiak, 1998, 220 pp. (Basque)
    • "Gutenbergova galaxie", in Člověk, média a elektronická kultura: Výbor z díla, Brno: Jota, 2000, pp 105-158. Trans. of excerpt. (Czech)
    • A Gutenberg-galaxis: a tipográfiai ember létrejötte, intro. István Kristó Nagy, trans. Vilmos Benczik, Budapest: Trezor, 2001, 331 pp. (Hungarian)
    • Gutenberg galaksisi: tipografik insanın oluşumu, trans. Gül Çağalı Güven, Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2001, 413 pp. (Turkish)
    • Galaktika Gutenberga: sotvorenie čeloveka pečatnoj kultury, trans. Aleksandr Ûdin, Kiev: Nika Centr: Elga, 2004, 432 pp. (Ukrainian)
    • Galaktika Gutenberga: stanovlenie cheloveka pechataiushchego [Галактика Гутенберга. Становление человека печатающего], trans. I.O. Tiurinoi, Moscow: Akademicheskii proekt (Академический проект), 2005, 496 pp; 2nd ed., 2013, 496 pp. (Russian)
    • A Galaxia Gutenberg: a creación do home tipográfico, intro. Darío Villanueva, trans. Manuel Outeiriño, Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2010, 506 pp. (Galician)
    • Galaktyka Gutenberga: tworzenie człowieka druku, intro. Grzegorz Godlewski, trans. Andrzej Wojtasik, Warsaw: Narodowe Centrum Kultury, 2017, 467 pp. (Polish)
  • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, New York: McGraw Hill, 1964; MIT Press, 1994, 392 pp; ed. W. Terrence Gordon, Gingko Press, 2003, 640 pp. [4] (English)
    • Gli strumenti del comunicare, trans. Ettore Capriolo, Milan: Il Saggiatore, 1967; new ed., intro. Giovanni Cesareo, Milan: Garzanti, 1986, 387 pp, EPUB; new ed., Milan: Il Saggiatore, 2011. (Italian)
    • Ningen kakuchō no genri: media no rikai [人間拡張の原理: メディアの理解], trans. Susumu Takagi, Tokyo: Takeuchi Shoten, 1967, 468 pp. (Japanese)
    • Mens en media, trans. S. de Lange, Utrecht: Ambopaperbacks, 1967, 354 pp. (Dutch)
    • Mennesket og medierne, trans. Elsa Gress Wright, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1967, 395 pp. (Danish)
    • Media: människans utbyggnader, trans. Richard Matz, Stockholm: PAN/Norstedt, 1967, 356 pp. (Swedish)
    • Pour comprendre les médias, trans. Jean Paré, Montréal: HMH, 1968; Paris: Seuil, 1968. (French)
    • Ihmisen uudet ulottuvuudet, trans. Antero Tiusanen, Porvoo and Helsinki: WS, 1968, 397 pp. (Finnish)
    • Mennesket og media, trans. Olav Angell, Oslo: Gyldendal, 1968, 315 pp; Oslo: Pax, 1997. (Norwegian)
    • Die magischen Kanäle. Understanding Media, trans. Meinrad Amann, Düsseldorf and Vienna: Econ, 1968, 389 pp; Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg: Fischer, 1970, 343 pp. (German)
    • Środek jest przekazem: wybór fragmentów książki pt. "Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man", Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Radia i Telewizji, 1968, 73 pp. Trans. of excerpts. (Polish)
    • Os meios de comunicação como extensão do homem, trans. Décio Pignatari, São Paulo: Cultrix, 1969, 407 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • La comprension de los medios como las extensiones del hombre, trans. Ramón Palazón, México: Diana, 1969, 443 pp. (Spanish)
    • Poznavanje opštila: čovekovih produžetaka, trans. Slobodan Đorđević, Belgrade: Prosveta, 1971, 432 pp. (Serbo-Croatian)
    • trans. Khalil Sabat, Cairo: Dar al-Nahdah al-'Arabiyah, 1975. (Arabic)
    • Media ron: ningen no kakuchō no shosō [メディア論: 人間の拡張の諸相], trans. Yutaka Kurihara and Nakakiyo Kōmoto, Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 1987, 381 pp. (Japanese)
    • Media: oi proektaseis tou anthrōpou [Media: Οι προεκτάσεις του ανθρώπου], trans. Spyros Mandros, Athens: Ekdoseis Kalvos, 1990, 434 pp. (Greek)
    • Jak rozumět médiím: extenze člověka, trans. Miloš Calda, afterw. Jaroslav Střítecký, Prague: Odeon, 1991, 348 pp; 2nd ed., rev., afterw. Jan Jirák, Prague: Mladá fronta, 2011, 399 pp. (Czech)
    • Comprender los medios de comunicación: las extensiones del ser humano, trans. Patrick Ducher, Barcelona: Paidós, 1996, 366 pp. [5] (Spanish)
    • Medien verstehen: der McLuhan-Reader, eds. Martin Baltes, Fritz Böhler and Rainer Höltschl, Mannheim: Bollmann, 1997, 239 pp. (German)
    • Midiŏ ŭi ihae: In'gan ŭi hwakchang, trans. Sang Ho Kim, Seoul: Communication Books, 1997, 599 pp. (Korean)
    • Media begrijpen: de extensies van de mens, Amsterdam: Nieuwezijds, 2002, 424 pp. (Dutch)
    • Le-havin et ha-medyah: sheluḥot ha-adam [להבין את המדיה : שלוחות האדם], trans. ʻIdit Shorer, Tel Aviv: Bavel, 2002, 440 pp. (Hebrew)
    • Kaip suprasti medijas: žmogaus tęsiniai, trans. Daina Valentinavičienė, Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2003, 347 pp. (Lithuanian)
    • Zrozumieć media: przedłużenia człowieka, intro. Natalia Szczucka, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Naukowo-Techniczne, 2004, 477 pp. (Polish)
    • Ponimaniye media: vneshniye rasshireniya cheloveka [Понимание медиа: внешние расширения человека], Moscow: Kuchkovo pole (Кучково поле), 2007, 464 pp. (Russian)
    • Razumijevanje medija, trans. David Prpa, 2008. (Croatian)
    • Să înţelegem media: extensiile omului, trans. Ovidiu George Vitan, Bucharest: Curtea Veche, 2011, 488 pp. (Romanian)
  • with Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, coord. Jerome Agel, Toronto: Bantam Books, 1967, 159 pp; London: Penguin Books, 1967, 159 pp; New York: Random House, 1967, 159 pp; Gingko Press, 2001, 160 pp; Penguin, 2008; Gingko Press, 2011. [6] (English)
    • Message et massage, trans. Thérèse Lauriol, Paris: Pauvert, 1968, 160 pp. (French)
    • Il medium è il massaggio, trans. Raffaele Petrillo, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1968, 159 pp; 2nd ed., 1981. (Italian)
    • Media wa massaji de aru: eikyō no mokuroku [メディアはマッサージである: 影響の目錄], trans. Hiroshi Minami, Tokyo: Kawade Shobō, 1968. (Japanese)
    • Das Medium ist Message, trans. Max Nänny, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin: Ullstein, 1969, 154 pp. (German)
    • El medio es el masaje: un inventario de efectos, trans. León Mirlas, Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1969, 159 pp. (Spanish)
    • O meio são as massa-gens, trans. Ivan Pedro de Martins, Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1969, 187 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Das Medium ist die Message Ein Inventar medialer Effekte, trans. Martin Baltes and Rainer Höltschl, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2011, 158 pp. [7] (German)
    • Médiamasszázs: egy rakás hatás, trans. Barnabás Kiss, Budapest: Typotex, 2012, 160 pp. (Hungarian)
  • with Quentin Fiore, War and Peace in the Global Village: An Inventory of Some of the Current Spastic Situations That Could Be Eliminated By More Feedforward, ed. Jerome Agel, New York: Bantam Books, 1968, 190 pp; Gingko Press, 2001, 192 pp; new ed., Gingko Press, 2015. Publisher.
    • Guerre et paix dans le village planétaire: un inventaire de quelques situations spasmodiques courantes qui pourraient être supprimées, Paris: Laffont, 1970, 189 pp. (French)
    • Krieg und Frieden im globalen Dorf: eine Bestandsaufnahme einiger der gegenwärtigen festgefahrenen Situationen, aus denen es einen Ausweg gäbe, wenn man mehr vorwirkte, trans. Joachim Schulte, Düsseldorf and Vienna: Econ, 1971, 214 pp; new ed., afterw. Karlheinz Barck and Martin Treml, Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2011, 224 pp. (German)
    • Guerra y paz en la aldea global, trans. José Méndez Herrera, Barcelona: Martínez Roca, 1971, 196 pp. (Spanish)
    • Chikyumura no senso to heiwa [地球村の戦争と平和], trans. Hidehiko Hirose, Tokyo: Ootobo Shobo, 1972, 235 pp. (Japanese)
    • Guerra e pace nel villaggio globale, Milan: Apogeo, 1995, 192 pp. (Italian)
    • Voyna i mir v globalnoy derevne [Война и мир в глобальной деревне], Moscow: AST Astrel (АСТ, Астрель), 2012, 219 pp. (Russian)
  • with Harley Parker, Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting, New York: Harper & Row, 1968. (English)
    • O espaço na poesia e na pintura: atraves do ponto de fuga, trans. Edson Bini, Marcio Pugliesi and Norberto de Paula Lima, São Paulo: Hemus, 1975, xxiv+273 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Il punto di fuga: lo spazio in poesia e pittura, pref. Gianpiero Gamaleri, Milan: SugarCo, 1988, 285 pp. (Italian)
    • La aldea global: transformaciones en la vida y los medios de comunicación mundiales en el siglo XXI, trans. Claudia Ferrari, Barcelona: Gedisa, 1990, 203 pp. (Spanish)
    • Global köy: 21. yüzyılda yeryüzü yaşamında ve medyada meydana gelecek dönüşümler, trans. Bahar Öcal çev Düzgören, Istanbul: Scala, 2001, 320 pp. (Turkish)
    • Gurobaru virejji: 21seiki no sei to media no tenkan [グローバル・ヴィレッジ: 21世紀の生とメディアの転換], trans. Katsuhiko Asami, Tokyo: Seikyūsha, 2003, 366 pp. (Japanese)
  • Culture Is Our Business, eds. Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970, 336 pp; repr., 2015. (English)
    • La cultura es nuestro negocio, trans. Francisco J. Perea and Lorrain Ch. de Perea, México: Diana, 1974, 399 pp. (Spanish)
  • with Wilfred Watson, From Cliché to Archetype, New York: Viking, 1970. [8] [9] (English)
    • Du cliché à l'archétype: la foire du sens. Accompagné du dictionnaire des idées reçues de Gustave Flaubert, Montréal: HMH, 1973, 234 pp; Paris: Mame, 1973. (French)
    • Del clisé al arquetipo, trans. René Cárdenas Barrios, México: Diana, 1973, 270 pp. (Spanish)
    • Dal cliché all'archetipo : l'uomo tecnologico nel villaggio globale, trans. Francesca Gorjup Valente and Carla Plevano Pezzini, Milan: SugarCo, 1987, 270 pp. (Italian)
  • with Kathryn Hutchon and Eric McLuhan, City as Classroom: Understanding Language and Media, The Book Society of Canada Limited, 1977; repr. as Media, Messages and Language: The World as your Classroom, Skokie, Ill: National Textbook Co., 1980. (English)
    • Città come aula: per capire il linguaggio e i media, trans. Amleto Lorenzini, Rome: A. Armando, 1984, 238 pp. (Italian)
  • with Eric McLuhan, Laws of Media: The New Science, University of Toronto Press, 1988, 252 pp. (English)
    • Leyes de los medios: la nueva ciencia, trans. Juan José Utrilla, México: Alianza, 1990, 269 pp. (Spanish)
    • La legge dei media: la nuova scienza, trans. Alessandro Roffeni, Rome: Lavoro, 1994, 346 pp. (Italian)
    • Zakoni na mediite: novata nauka, Sofia: Universitetsko izd-vo sv. Kliment Okhridski, 1995, 256 pp. (Bulgarian)
    • Media no hōsoku [メディアの法則], trans. Hiroshi Takayama and Yutaka Nakazawa, Tokyo: NTT Shuppan, 2002, xxii+335 pp. (Japanese)
  • with Eric McLuhan, Media and Formal Cause, Neopoiesis Press, 2011. (English)
  • with Eric McLuhan, Theories of Communication, New York: Peter Lang, 2011, xiv+253 pp. [10] (English)
  • with Robert K. Logan, The Future of the Library: From Electric Media to Digital Media, New York: Peter Lang, 2016, xvi+238 pp. [11], [12]. Review: Spangenberg (Int Rev Educ). (English)

Editor

  • with Edmund Carpenter, Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication journal, issues 1-8, Toronto, 1953-1957; selected articles from issues 1-8 repr. as Explorations in Communication: An Anthology, 1960 (see below). The journal of the "communications group" (Carpenter, McLuhan, Easterbrook, Tyrwhitt, Williams); the central theme was 'media biases'. Issues 10-32. [13] [14] [15] (English)
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1956. (English)
  • with Edmund Carpenter, Explorations in Communication: An Anthology, Boston: Beacon Press, 1960, 210 pp. Selection of articles from first eight issues of Explorations journal. (English)
    • Makurūhan nyūmon: Komyunikēshon no atarashii tankyū [マクルーハン入門 : コミュニケーションの新しい探求], trans. Masaomi Oomae and Kazuhiko Gotō, Tokyo: Saimaru Shuppankai, 1967, 210 pp; 1981. (Japanese)
    • El aula sin muros: investigaciones sobre técnicas de comunicación, intro. Román Gubern, trans. Luis Carandell, 1968, 266 pp; 2nd ed., 1974. (Spanish)
    • Revolução na comunicação, trans. Alvaro Cabral, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 1968, 248 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • La comunicazione di massa, Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1969, xxxi+260 pp. (Italian)
  • Voices of Literature, 2 vols., Holt, Rinehart & Winston of Canada, 1964-65. (English)
  • Aspen 4, New York: Roaring Fork Press, Spring 1967. (English)
  • with R.J. Schoeck, Voices of Literature, Book III: Sounds, Masks, Roles, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. (English)

Selected essays, lectures and interviews

  • The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan 1943-1962, ed. Eugene McNamara, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. (English)
    • Die innere Landschaft: literarische Essays, trans. Donata Gräfin Finckenstein, Düsseldorf: Claassen, 1974, 297 pp. (German)
    • Il paesaggio interiore: la critica letteraria di Marshall McLuhan, Milan: SugarCo, 1983, 223 pp. (Italian)
  • Mutations, trans. François Chesneau, Tours: Mame, 1969, 105 pp; Montréal: HMH, 1969. (French)
    • Mutacões en educacão segundo McLuhan, trans. Lauro de Oliveira Lima, Petrópolis: Vozes, 1971, 63 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Stroomversnelling: de mens in het elektronisch tijdperk, trans. Wim van Gent, Hilversum: Paul Brand, 1970, 88 pp. (Dutch)
  • with Josep Maria Casasús, Teoría de la imagen, Barcelona: Salvat, 1973, 142 pp. Interview. (Spanish)
    • Théorie de l'image, Paris: Laffont, 1975, 142 pp. (French)
  • Wybór pism: Przekazniki, czyli przedluzenie czlowieka; Galaktyka Gutenberga; Poza punktem zbiegu, ed. Jacek Fuksiewicz, trans. Karol Jakubowicz, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1975, 336 pp. (Polish)
  • D'oeil à oreille, trans. Derrick de Kerckhove, Montréal: Hustubise HMH, 1977, 166 pp; Paris: Denoël/Gonthier, 1977. Interviews and articles from various sources which appeared between 1959-1973. (French)
  • with Pierre Babin, Autre homme, autre chrétien à l'âge électronique, Lyon: Chalet, 1978, 191 pp. Interviews. (French)
    • Otro hombre, otro cristiano en la era electrónica, trans. Basilio Bustillo, Barcelona: Don Bosco, 1980, 135 pp. (Spanish)
    • Drugačen človek, drugačen kristjan v dobi elektronike, trans. Valter Dermota, Ljubljana: Katehetski center Ljubljana-Kodeljevo, 1980, 151 pp. (Slovenian)
  • Wohin steuert die Welt? Massenmedien und Gesellschaftsstruktur, Vienna: Europaverlag, 1978, 259 pp. (German)
  • Dall'occhio all'orecchio, ed. Gianpiero Gamaleri, Rome: Armando, 1986, 141 pp. (Italian)
  • Marshall McLuhan: The Man and his Message, intro. John Cage, eds. George Sanderson and Frank Macdonald, Fulcrum, 1989. (English)
    • L'uomo e il suo messaggio: le leggi dei media, la violenza, l'ecologia, la religione, Milan: SugarCo, 1992, 206 pp. (Italian)
  • The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion, eds. Eric McLuhan and Jacek Szklarek, Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 1992; Toronto: Stoddart, 2002, 224 pp. (English)
    • La luce e il mezzo: riflessioni sulla religione, ed. Giorgia Biolghini, trans. Gianluca Sanna, Rome: Armando, 2002, 220 pp. (Italian)
  • Essential McLuhan, eds. Frank Zingrone and Eric McLuhan, New York: Basic Books, 1995. (English)
    • Mass-media sau mediul invizibil, trans. Mihai Moroiu, Bucharest: Nemira, 1997, 398 pp; 2nd ed. as Texte esenţiale, trans. Mihai Moroiu, Bucharest: Nemira, 2006, 606 pp. (Romanian)
    • McLuhan: escritos esenciales, trans. Jorge Basaldúa and Elvira Macías, Barcelona: Paidós, 1998, 492 pp. (Spanish)
    • La cultura come business: il mezzo è il messaggio, ed. Gianpiero Gamaleri, trans. Claudia Gasperini and Mario Gemelli, Rome: Armando, 1998, 158 pp. (Italian)
    • Media e nuova educazione: il metodo della domanda nel villaggio globale, ed. Ester Gandini Gamaleri, trans. Claudia Gasperini and Mario Gemelli, Rome: Armando, 1998, 175 pp. (Italian)
    • Le radici del cambiamento: Platone, Shakespeare e la TV, ed. Gianpiero Gamaleri, trans. Claudia Gasperini and Mario Gemelli, Rome: Armando, 1998, 206 pp. (Italian)
    • Percezioni: per un dizionario mediologico, ed. Gianpiero Gamaleri, Rome: Armando, 1998, 151 pp. (Italian)
    • Člověk, média a elektronická kultura: Výbor z díla, trans. Irena Přibylová and Martin Krejza, Brno: Jota, 2000, 420 pp. (Czech)
    • Wybór tekstów, trans. Ewa Różalska and Jacek M. Stokłosa, Poznań: Zysk i S-ka Wydaw., 2001, 581 pp. (Polish)
  • Media Research: Technology, Art, Communication: Essays by Marshall McLuhan, ed. M.A. Moos, Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 1997. [16] (English)
  • Marshall McLuhan: tra letteratura, arte e media, ed. Elena Lamberti, Milan: Mondadori, 2000, 192 pp. (Italian)
  • Das Medium ist die Botschaft, ed. & trans. Martin Baltes, Fritz Boehler, Rainer Höltschl and Jürgen Reuß, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 2001, 301 pp. Talks and interviews. [17] (German)
  • Absolute Marshall McLuhan, eds. Martin Baltes and Rainer Höltschl, Freiburg: Orange Press, 2002, 223 pp. Trans. of excerpts from McLuhan's writings and interviews; with biographical essay by Philip Marchand. (German)
  • Marshall McLuhan Unbound, 20 vols., eds. Eric McLuhan and W. Terrence Gordon, Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2005, 412 pp. [18] (English)
  • Letteratura e metafore della realtà, 3 vols., ed. Silvia D'Offizi, trans. Edmondo Coccia, Rome: Armando, 2009-2011. Vol. 1: Letteratura e metafore della realtà; vol. 2: La critica letteraria; vol. 3: Il mito e la rappresentazione artistica. (Italian)
  • Jean Paré, Conversations avec McLuhan 1966-1973, Montréal: Boréal, 2010, 136 pp. [19] (French)
  • with David Carson, The Book of Probes, eds. Eric McLuhan and William Kuhns, Gingko Press, 2011, 576 pp. Collection of aphorisms and excerpts. [20] (English)
  • Aforismi e profezie, ed. Marco Pigliacampo, afterw. Derrick de Kerckhove, Rome: Armando, 2011, 190 pp. (Italian)
  • McLuhan nello spirito del suo tempo, ed. Nicola Pentecoste, Rome: Armando, 2015, 279 pp. (Italian)

Essays, interviews

Bibliographies

Correspondence

  • Letters of Marshall McLuhan, eds. Matie Molinam, Corrine McLuhan, and William Toye, Oxford University Press, 1987, 562 pp. (English)
    • Corrispondenza, 1931-1979, pref. Gianpiero Gamaleri, eds. Corinne McLuhan, Matie Molinaro and Francesca Valente, Milan: SugarCo, 1990, 359+[16] pp. (Italian)

Literature

Journals

Special issues

Monographs

Biographies
  • Philip Marchand, Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger, New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989, 320 pp; MIT Press, 1998. (English)
    • Marshall McLuhan: Botschafter der Medien. Biographie, trans. Martin Baltes, Stuttgart: DVA, 1999, 431 pp. (German)
    • Maikeluhan: mei jie ji xin shi [麦克卢汉: 媒介及信使], trans. He Daokuan, Beijing: Zhongguo ren min da xue chu ban she, 2003, xviii+333 pp. (Chinese)
  • W. Terrence Gordon, Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding, A Biography, Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2003, 480 pp. [25] (English)
  • Douglas Coupland, Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!, New York: Atlas & Co, 2010, 224 pp. (English)
    • Marshall McLuhan, trans. Jean Paré, Montréal: Boréal, 2010, 256 pp. [26] (French)

Conference proceedings

  • McLuhan e la metamorfosi dell'uomo, eds. Derrick de Kerckhove and Amilcare Iannucci, Rome: Bulzoni, 1984, 263 pp. Papers from the symposium held in Venice, 11-13 Nov 1982. (Italian)
  • Pour comprendre 1984 / Understanding 1984, ed. Derrick de Kerckhove, Ottawa: Canadian Commission for Unesco, 1984, 330 pp. Papers delivered at the colloquium McLuhan and 1984, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, 14-16 Dec 1983. (French),(English)
  • Marshall McLuhan + Vilém Flusser's Communication + Aesthetic Theories Revisited, eds. Melentie Pandilovski and Tom Kohut, Winnipeg: Video Pool Media Arts Centre, 2015. Proceedings of the 2012 conference. [27] (English)
  • McLuhan: Social Media Between Faith and Culture, eds. Domenico Pietropaolo and Robert K. Logan, Ottawa: Legas, 2015. [28] [29] (English)

Essays

Documentaries

  • McLuhan's Wake, dir. Kevin McMahon, 94 min, 2002. Documentary film. emro.
  • Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan, dir. Carl Bessai, 45 min, 1999. TV documentary. resource guide. ubu.

Recent conferences and exhibitions on McLuhan

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